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CHAPTER EIGHT

When Hitomi woke up she found herself still wearing her wedding dress, but she was back in her apartment. She forced herself up and ran frantically around the room hoping that Van might have returned with her. After she searched the last place, the last room in the small one bedroom apartment, she collapsed to the ground and cried. "Van…" She whispered out loud and gasped realizing that she had just spoken. "I can speak?" She thought to herself as she grasped hold of her throat. "It wasn't a dream was it?" No, she knew the answer to that question, the wedding dress proved it wrong and so did the two rings on her fingers as well as everything else she wore. She stared down at the wedding ring that Van had just slipped on to her finger and tears once again started coming. She clutched hold of the ring closely to her chest, knowing that it was stupid but she couldn't help it. They where finally together, but the goddess of the earth wouldn't allow it, Hitomi knew this now. They where lovers that could never be together, they would never be able to have a chance, she had helped the goddess of Gaea save Gaea but that goddess wouldn't help her in the end.

She had given up so much to save Gaea, why couldn't she be rewarded by love? In the end, she had only been rewarded with nothing but pain and agony since she had come back from Gaea; she wished that Van would have let her stay the first time she had gone, then only the gods knew what would happen. She had her voice back, but what good was that? She didn't have Van, Van was all that she needed. She knew that she was being a pitiful woman, a crybaby and one who was suppose to be a tomboy was being stupid. She slid down the side of the wall and lost all consciousness.

Van just stared up at the sky in shock, not knowing what to do. "HITOMI!" He shouted after the pink pillar of light, having had lost hold of Hitomi's grasp. "DAMN!" He shouted needing something to punch badly at the moment. "HITOMI!" He shouted again knowing that it would be useless, he dropped to his knees and stared up at the two moons. It was then when he heard the confusion of the crowd, some women screamed, some people talked amongst themselves, some just stared up in horror. He stood up and moved through the crowd needing to get out of there, and could tell that Merle was at his side instantly. He knew that she wanted to say something to him, but he shot one glare from her and she shut her mouth close instantly. What was he to do? Damn he didn't even know what to do, all he knew was that he had to get out of that crowd at that moment or he would kill someone! It was a good thing that he didn't have his sword on him at the moment or he would. He was too busy rampaging when he almost didn't notice that the royal family of Asturia and Fried had joined behind him. Even Allen was there with his sister who seemed to have a strange look on her face. He lead them to the conference room. "No one is to disturb us for no matter what reason." Van ordered the guards. "I don't care if it's some royal from this country or another I am not to be disturbed, do you understand me?" He asked the guards, his eyes narrowing on them.

"Yes sir." They answered as soon as Van had finished giving the order.

Van shut the doors behind them and looked at the people who had become his friends, Allen wasn't really but he was Hitomi's friend, a little too close of a friend for Van's comfort. Then again she wasn't here so there was no need to be worried about Allen, right now he was worried about Hitomi.

When Hitomi woke up, her eyes hurt from crying, she felt that most of her energy had returned to her and that she still wore her dress which noted that it wasn't just a dream. What was she to do? She had no way of contacting Van unless if he was trying to at the same time and what would she say to him if she did contact him? She wanted to start crying again but forced herself not to as she now stood up and headed back to her bedroom. She wasn't expecting anyone over but if anyone saw her in such a dress they would probably worry about her. She changed in to a pair of jeans and a shirt which felt strange to wear since she hadn't wore anything like this since she had been on Gaea for more then a month now. Or had she? She looked to her watch which was left on her counter and she realized that it said the day that she had left.

She put the tiara away in to a safe place, her duffle bag since no one would think of looking there for the crown if anyone decided to rob her or whatever, and she put it in a box along with the other jewelry she wore for her and Van's wedding in there. The only thing that she wore, where the two rings that Van had given her, one was her and Van's wedding ring, which she wore on the ring finger, and she wore the second ring on her left hand, it had the same symbol that Van's sword had on it. She stared at it as she tried to keep herself from crying. She had no one, her parents where dead as well as her brother, Yukari and Amano where in America and they couldn't be bothered since they where planning for their own wedding. Hitomi's grandmother had died so she couldn't talk to her grandmother about it, oh gods, what was she going to do? She was going to die, she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. "Van…" She thought again as his image appeared in his mind and she once again fell to her knees and started to cry. Was she really this useless? She didn't know, all she knew was that she had to get back to him somehow.

"God, why, why can't I be with him?" She asked out loud. "Why? Why am I so cursed as if not to find any happiness in this life?" She had been unhappy ever since she had returned to this planet. Her parents had died because of her as well as her brother, her grandmother had died of old age, and Yukari and Amano left her not understanding to how she felt. Life, was it really worth living with out Van? She forced those thoughts out of her head.

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